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Charity offering help and support for people suffering from Friedreich’s and cerebellar ataxia. Information on the disease, treatment and research.
Ataxia: What is Ataxia?
What is Ataxia? 'Ataxia' means ‘absence of order’. People with ataxia have problems of co-ordination. This is because parts of the nervous system that normally control co ...
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Ataxia (from Greek α-[used as a negative prefix] + -τάξις [order], meaning "lack of order") is a neurological sign and symptom consisting of gross incoordination of muscle ...

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Ataxia, loss or impairment of muscular coordination. Ataxia may be characterized by involuntary trembling of parts of the body when performing voluntary movements, by difficulty in performing precise movements, or by disturbance in balancing the body. The condition is a symptom of a number of different disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, but is not a disease itself. It may be caused by an injury to, or a disease of, the central nervous system, particularly the cerebellum, basal ganglia, or cerebrum.